Major tools and equipment used

Acquisition and processing of multibeam bathymetry

Side-scan sonar data acquisition and processing

Seismic reflection profiling: data aqcuisition, processing and interpretation

Soil mechanical testing: triaxial and oedometer testing, including Constant Rate of Strain and Constant Rate of Stress Tests

Sedimentology lab: grain size, organic matter, shear strength, consistency limits

User of the following software tools:

• The “Swathed Tools” from the Ocean Mapping Group of the University of New Brunswick (Multibeam processing)
• CARAIBES(CARtographie Appliquée à l'Imagerie et la Bathymétrie des Sonars et sondeurs multifaisceaux) from IFREMER (Multibeam processing)
• MB-System (Multibeam processing)
• “Earth Vision” from Dynamic Graphics (3-D Modelling)
• ERDAS’ Imagine 8.3 (Image analysis)
• Generic Mapping Tools (GMT-5) (Mapping)
• ESRI's ArcGIS
• VISTA seismic package from "GEDCO"
• DELPH, from “Triton-Elics”
• “Kingdom Suite” from “IHS” (Seismic data interpretation)
• OpendTect from dGB
• Plaxis Geotechnical Software
• urGLE 2.8. Developed Fortran program for analyzing slope stability problems using limit equilibrium equations for both force and moment equilibrium.
• C-shell scripting
• Fortran programming
• Unix system administration (Linux, SunOS, Irix)
• Advanced Windows user